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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Talisay Silay Milling Co. Inc (TASIMICO) was a sugar mill in Talisay, Negros. I believe the remains can be seen here: goo.gl/maps/os...
At the mill we had a ride on a Vulcan side tank and visited the loco shed. Most items were derelict. Outside the shed was an unusual item that looks like a loco but I believe was identified at the time as a non-loco (i.e. non-self propelling) weed killing vehicle with a steam boiler producing steam for spraying.
At the time of our visit, the mill was stopped for repair. Towards the end of the video we go inside the mill to see the repairs being completed and the stationary steam engines being restarted. The Corliss valve gear is interesting (and fairly unusual). The video concludes with a view of the drive from the mill towards Hawaiian Philippines Sugar Mill.
You can read more and see some photos here: www.internatio...
I haven’t yet been able to find my photos from the visit.
thank you for sharing this!TASIMICO has been a significant part of my childhood and teen years, I was born and grew up in TASIMICO compound until 1984 (my teen years) had happy memories of childhood with friends and families. Life was less than perfect, and those imperfections made us, children born from employees of sugar mill, be the better person we are today!
The place where the mill used to stand now is an open space with an abandoned cockpit. All locomotives and mill parts were maybe scrapped.
There was a steam locomotive on display at the Panaad Park back in 2018. Its number was 108 and it was produced by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, USA dtd February 1920. The display included railroad tracks. Quite fascinating to see.
Only two of them are still in service today
Is that the same type of Vulcan 0-6-0T in java?
Wasn't this the first mill on the island that started to use tractors to replace the locos?
I wouldn't know but by late 1982, the mill was yard work only with 1-2 steam and a couple of diesels only required to shunt the yard. I assume the mill once had field lines due to the several dumped locos and the odd weed-killer boiler that looked like a loco.
@@JohnRaby The mill did indeed had field lines. There's a BBC document on this in the 70s. It's got a slight footage of cane train from Talisay Silay, before the loco got derailed at the time. However, in the document, the narrator only stated that tractors have taken over some of the work, hence the reason why I asked, as they didn't come back years after.
It's just shame that hardly anyone documented Phillipines cane trains in their hey days. People's main focus in terms of South East Asia was mainly towards Java I suppose. But again, good documents though, definitely gave me another angle.
wow